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Development or Dunes? The Long Struggle to Protect Perth’s Scarborough Beach Coastal Reserve
The long battle to protect Scarborough Beach’s coastal dunes demonstrates both the power and limitations of local grassroots advocacy groups.
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Ban the Burn: The Trans-Local Campaign against Ocean Incineration, 1983–1988
This article charts the rise and fall of ocean incineration and describes how coastal communities and transnational organizations challenged it.
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A Crab’s-Eye View of the Food Chain in Contemporary China
This article rethinks Chinese foodways and invasive species from a crab’s perspective.
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Subterranean (In)visibilities: Traces, Underground Water, and Thermal Flows in the El Tatio Geyser Field, Atacama, Chile
Describing geothermal exploration traces and explosions at the “El Tatio” geyser field, this article explores the (in)visible trajectories of underground water.
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Missionizing and Transforming the Land: Alexander Merensky in Botshabelo
With the foundation of the mission village Botshabelo, new plant and animal species settle in this region, whose landscape is heavily altered.
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Rise and Fall of the Baltic Sea Flatfish Fishery in the Interwar Period
On the exploitation of flatfish stocks in the Baltic Sea as a classic example of the “tragedy of the commons.”
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From Rains to Floods: A Case of Chennai in 2015
This article looks at the terminology around the 2015 flooding in Chennai city in India.
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From “Commonwealth of Powder-makers” to Haven for Protected Species: The Chilworth Gunpowder Works
The East India Company commence gunpowder production in Chilworth on the River Tillingbourne.
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The Tragedy of the Paradise Parrot
The tragic story of the Paradise Parrot is haunted by both the spectre and the reality of extinction.
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Disconnectivity in the Age of Globalization: Coastal Ecology, Telegraphy, and Empire in the Sunda Strait, 1863–1883
This article examines the environmental implications of Dutch nineteenth-century attempts to establish a telegraph connection across the Sunda Strait.